OUTRAGEOUS: Look What Hillary Wants to Do to Man Who Stopped ISIS Mall Knifeman

Democrat presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, which was signed into law by former President George W. Bush in 2005 to protect gun manufacturers and dealers from frivolous lawsuits.

If this law were repealed, it would gravely affect men like NRA-certified firearms instructor and dealer Jason Falconer, the hero responsible for shooting and killing the Somali immigrant who went on a stabbing spree at a Minnesota mall on Saturday.

During the first Democrat primary debate last year, she claimed that the PLCAA kept manufacturers and dealers “wholly protected from any kind of liability,” according to PolitiFact, which ruled the claim false.

“Clinton is talking about a law that says the gun industry is protected from liability in certain instances, but the law also specifies several situations in which the gun industry is susceptible to lawsuits,” the fact-checking site wrote.

The National Shooting Sports Foundation concurred. In a statement it released after the debate, the organization noted that the PLCAA permitted “legitimate lawsuits based on knowing violations of federal or state law related to gun sales, or on traditional grounds including negligent entrustment or breach of contract.”

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“The law also allows product liability cases involving injuries caused by a defective firearm,” it added.

What the law prohibited were junk lawsuits based on the flimsy argument that if a criminal used a dealer’s gun to commit a crime, then the dealer was also responsible.

But if Clinton were to repeal the PLCAA, dealers like Jason Falconer would lose this protection, meaning they could and would likely be hit left and right with lawsuits.

This, of course, leads us to the true purpose of repealing the PLCAA, as outlined by Bearing Arms contributor Bob Owens: “The only reason to repeal the PLCAA is so that deep-pocketed gun control groups financed by anti-gun billionaires can file wave after wave of frivolous lawsuits to bankrupt manufacturers, distributors, and gun dealers.”